CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT
HOUSE BILL 1553
Chapter
185, Laws of 1995
54th
Legislature
1995
Regular Session
BALLOT
TITLES‑-LENGTH
EFFECTIVE
DATE: 7/23/95
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Passed by
the House March 9, 1995
Yeas 97 Nays 0
CLYDE BALLARD
Speaker
of the
House
of Representatives
Passed by
the Senate April 10, 1995
Yeas 47 Nays 0
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CERTIFICATE
I, Timothy
A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of
Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1553 as
passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set
forth.
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JOEL PRITCHARD
President
of the Senate
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TIMOTHY A. MARTIN
Chief
Clerk
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Approved
May 1, 1995 Place Style On Codes above, and Style
Off Codes below.
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FILED
May
1, 1995 - 11:27 a.m.
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MIKE LOWRY
Governor
of the State of Washington
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Secretary
of State
State
of Washington
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HOUSE BILL 1553
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Passed Legislature - 1995 Regular Session
State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995
Regular Session
By
Read first time 01/30/95.
Referred to Committee on Government Operations.
Concerning the
proper form of certain ballot titles.
AN ACT Relating to
elections; and amending RCW 29.27.060.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 29.27.060 and 1993 c
256 s 8 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) When a proposed
constitution or constitutional amendment, initiative measure, referendum
bill, or other question is to be submitted to the people of the state for
state-wide popular vote, the attorney general shall prepare a concise statement
posed as a question and not exceeding ((twenty)) twenty-five
words containing the essential features thereof expressed in such a manner as
to clearly identify the proposition to be voted upon.
Questions to be
submitted to the people of a county or municipality shall also be advertised as
provided for nominees for office, and in such cases there shall also be printed
on the ballot a concise statement posed as a question and not exceeding seventy-five
words containing the essential features thereof expressed in such a manner as
to clearly identify the proposition to be voted upon, which statement shall be
prepared by the city or town attorney for the city or town, and by the
prosecuting attorney for the county or any other unit of local government,
other than a city or town, the majority area of which is situated in the
county.
The concise statement
constitutes the ballot title.
(2) The secretary of
state shall certify to the county auditors the ballot title for a proposed
constitution, constitutional amendment or other state-wide question at the same
time and in the same manner as the ballot titles to initiatives and
referendums.
(3) Subsection (1) of
this section does not apply to referendum measures filed on an enactment of the
state legislature or on an enactment of the legislative authority of a unit of
local government, nor does it apply to the extent that other provisions of
state law provide otherwise for a specific type of ballot question or
proposition.
Passed
the House March 9, 1995.
Passed
the Senate April 10, 1995.
Approved by the Governor May 1, 1995.
Filed in Office of
Secretary of State May 1, 1995.